ancient Egyptians as Shedet, its current name in English is also spelled as Fayum, Faiyum or al-Faiyūm. Faiyum was also previously officially named Madīnat...

Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits are a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden boards attached to upper class mummies from Roman Egypt...

The Fayum alphabet is an Ancient Greek abecedary inscribed on four copper plates, purportedly found in Fayum, Egypt but made in Cyprus. It may preserve...

environment, these Fayum mummy portraits make up the richest body of portraiture to have survived from antiquity. They provide a window into a society of peoples...

Fayyum Fragment (Papyrus Vindobonensis Greek 2325 [P. Vienna G. 2325]) is a papyrus fragment containing text that could be from part of the New Testament...

edited by Richard J.A. Talbert, 47–79. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Tait, John. "The 'Book of the Fayum': Mystery in a Known Landscape"....

characteristics, and lithics with North African characteristics are present in the Fayum A culture. Leprohon, Ronald J. (2013). The great name : ancient Egyptian...

encaustic panel paintings are the Romano-Egyptian Fayum mummy portraits from Egypt, around 100–300 AD, but it was a very common technique in ancient Greek and...

stylistic connections to Fayum Mummy portraiture including materials and artistic elements, and its production has been located in the Fayum district of Egypt...

a folivorous diet. The genus was first described by in 1922 for the species T. ultimus from the early Oligocene of the Jebel Qatrani Formation, Fayum...

and her drapery were reportedly similar to the paintings of the Fayum mummy portraits. A steel engraving published by John Sartain in 1885 depicting the...

W. (1906). A descriptive catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of the Fayum. Publ. Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist. Land. XXXVII. Anonymous. (1903). A New Egyptian...

School of Art in London. In 1995, she published a book on the Fayum portraits, titled The Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces from Ancient Egypt. The book...

northern Fayum Depression southwest of Cairo. The Fayum Depression is an oasis west of the Nile in northern Egypt. The formations of the Fayum have been...

heavenly symbols in Mandaean texts. Dried date, peach, and apricot from Lahun, Fayum, Egypt. Late Middle Kingdom Date palm in the emblem of Saudi Arabia Date...

Septimius Severus, Julia Domna and their children Geta and Caracalla, from Fayum, Egypt, is made. It is now kept at Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer...

Formation, Fayum Depression, Egypt". Palaeovertebrata. Gingerich, Philip D. "Early Evolution of Whales A Century of Research in Egypt". Elwyn Simons: A Search...

Shedyt (Greek Crocodilopolis, the modern Medinet el-Fayum) was renamed to honour his sister-wife Arsinoë; a massive Ptolemaic building program at Arsinoë has...

"Landscape archaeology of the desert Fayum". In Holdaway, Simon J.; Wendrich, Willeke (eds.). The Desert Fayum Reinvestigated: The early to mid-Holocene...

also features an altar with the head of Serapis, Zeus, or a syncretism of the two. The Fayum towns were settled by Roman veterans after Augustus conquered...

common sandgrouse[citation needed] (Pterocles exustus) is a species of sandgrouse. It is a sedentary and nomadic species that ranges from northern and...

AD) Mummy of a youth with a portrait of the deceased, Hawara (100–200 AD) Over 30 Fayum mummy portraits from Hawara and other sites in Fayum (40–250 AD)...

perpetrating a deliberate deception for the purposes of misleading the public about the true race of the ancient Egyptians. The Roman era Fayum mummy portraits...

genitive case (Ἀπόλλωνος Μίθρου Ἡλίου). Vermaseren also reports about a Mithras cult in Fayum in the 3rd century BCE (p 467) R.D. Barnett has argued that the...

and archaeology of Northern Fayum desert. Archaeologia Polona 13, 1972, p. 7–22 El-Sayed A. A.Youssef, M.A. Abdel Fattah und A. Refaat: Sequence stratigraphy...

Pharaohs Senosert III, Amenemhat III, and Amenemhat IV dug a canal 16 km (9.9 mi) long linking the Fayum Depression to the Nile in Middle Egypt. Two dams called...

(three fragments listed as Rahlfs 847, 848 and 942) are fragments, part of a papyrus manuscript in scroll form containing the Greek translation, known...

in 1948 was a specimen from Fayum in Egypt. † Loxodonta atlantica was proposed as Elephas atlanticus by Auguste Pomel in 1879 based on a skull and bones...

are the Hellenistic Fayum mummy portraits. Another example is mosaic of the Battle of Issus at Pompeii, which was probably based on a Greek painting. Greek...

Theodore of Shotep Moses of Psammaniu Philotheus of Pemdje Macarius of Fayum Maximus of Vuchim Macroni of Thoni Senuthius of Buasti Simeon of Thou Ptolemaeus...